Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives.

Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God; for, as a poet hath said, his laws govern all.

Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?

Everything is mere opinion.

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

We are the other of the other